Clamping device for street-signs.



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No. 727,065. PATENTED MAY 5, 1903.

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GLAMPING DEVICE FOR STREET SIGNS.

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UNITED STATES Patented May 5, 1903.

-ARTHUR D. BENHAM, OF MILFORD, MICHIGAN.

CLAM PING DEVICE FOR STREET-SIGNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,065, dated May 5, 1903. Application filed February 26, 1902. Serial No. 95,670- (No model.)

T0 at whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR D. BENHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milford, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clamping Devices for Street-Signs; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and'exact description of the invention, such as will onable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to clamping devices for street-signs, and has for its object an improved clamp adapted to be attached to the top of a post for the purpose of holding several signs that are to be placed at angles the one with respect to another, so that the characters appearing on the same may be seen from difierent directions-as, for example, where it is desired to place the names of cross streets on the same post or where it is desired to place a character indicating the number of the ward on the same sign with the names of the streets.

In the drawings on Sheet 1 are shown sketches showing a sign on a sheet of iron, and those on Sheet 2 show a sign painted on a wooden strip. The same invention is embodied in both forms.

Figure 1 is an elevation showing in sections the top of the post, one sign-strip in front elevation and a part of one sign-strip in cross-section. Fig. 2 is a perspective showing a cap of the post. Fig. 3 is a perspective showing the saddle and rider. Fig. 4. is a plan view showing the two parts of sheetmetal signs and the manner of fastening them together. Fig. 5 is an elevation-showing'the end of a sign and indicating a way in which the two parts of a single sign are fastened together. Fig. 6 is an elevation showing in sections the top of a wooden post with its cap in sections, with a wooden sign-strip above it and with a second Wooden sign-strip in section still higher up. Fig. 7 is a perspective showing the saddle and rider. Fig. 8 is a plan view of the saddle. Fig. 9 is a perspective showing the top of the post, the cap thereon, and the sign-holder for a wooden strip.

The structures as used for iron and wooden signs differ only in slight details. As used for iron there is a cap 1 made in somewhat cup-like form and arranged to engage over the top of a post. The cap 1 is centrally perforated for the reception of a bolt 2 and is provided with cross-grooves 3 and 4 parallel to a diameter of the cap and arranged to receive the lower edges of metal sign-strips 5 and 6.

Above the sign-strip is placed a saddle 7, which is .provided with grooves 8 and 9 on its lower side and with a serrated upper surface 10. Above this is placed a rider, which is constructed exactly like the saddle 7 and is used with the serrated face 12 engaging the serrations 10 on the saddle. There are preferably eight serrations in each piece, so that the two pieces may be placed with the grooves 8 and 9 at right angles to the grooves 13 and 14. or at an angle of forty-five degrees, as may be desired, these two positions being all that are necessary for any ordinary purpose.

On the upper surface of the rider 11 in the grooves 13 and 14 rest the edges of the signstrips 15 and 16, and on the upper edges of the strips 15 and 16 rests a second rider 17, which is a sheet-metal washer with turneddown edges and with a flat upper surface. The parts are held together by a nut 18, run on the threaded end of bolt 2.

The lower end of the bolt 2 is preferably formed with an eye 19,which engages around a bolt 20, that is placed horizontallyw through holes in the top of the iron post 21.

I prefer to use for each part of the sign a double strip of metal 56 or 15 16, and Irivet the ends of these together by rivets 22 23 24 and spring the middle parts'of the sign-strips away from each other,placing the boltthrough the opening between the strips and placing the edges of the strips in the grooves in the seat or saddle.

To hold a wooden sign, the parts are quite similar, except that the cap 31' may be made, if desired, with aneck 33. This'seat-lnaybe provided with pins 34 35 to take into cavities in the strip of wood, or it may be made with grooved form, if desired. The grooved form is shown in the saddle 36 and the rider 37. The cap 31 may be bolted to the pole top by bolt 40, and the bolt 38 may engage with a head on the under side of the neck 33 instead of with the eye, as shown in Fig. 1.

The parts in this case are held together by a nut 39 on a threaded end on the bolt 38.

What I claim is 1. In a street-guide, the combination with a central stem of two sign-plates arranged transversely to each other, a coupling arranged upon said stem between the two signplates and comprising a saddle arranged to engage over the lower sign-plate, and a rider arranged to engage under the upper signplate and with serrations on the adjacent face of both saddle and rider arranged to intermesh, a coupling bolt and nut and means for preventing the clamping-bolt from turning,

substantially as described.

2. In a street-sign, in combination With a cap for a post provided with a seat thereon MAY E. KOTT, CHARLES F. BURTON. 

